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Kansas voting without a paper trail? By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

Wichita State University mathematician Beth Clarkson has seen enough odd patterns in some election returns that she thinks it’s time to check the

Though not an issue in Douglas County, other areas grapple with flawed machines accuracy of some Kansas voting machines. She’s finding out government officials don’t make such testing easy to do.

When Clarkson initially decided to check the accuracy of voting machines, she thought the easy part would be getting the paper records produced by the ma-

chines, and the hard part would these (records),” Clarkson said. be conducting the audit. It’s But Sedgwick County election turned out to be just the opposite. officials “refused to allow the “I really did not expect to Please see VOTING, page 2A have a lot of problems getting

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Transit hub could mean big changes for 21st St.

t is getting close to decision time for Lawrence city commissioners when it comes to a major bus issue. Commissioners need to figure out where the city’s main bus hub is going to be. The decision involves a multimilliondollar construction project, and perhaps more importantly, could go a long way in determining whether voters will be ready to extend a sales tax in coming years to continue funding CITY COMMISSION the transit system. Commissioners will talk about the subject at their Tuesday evening meeting. At issue will be whether the city should move forward with placing the transit hub — basically the place where most of the buses congregate and transfers

In East Lawrence, a case of Who-dunnit NINE-YEAR-OLD FINN LOTTON-BARKER, front, and his 11-yearold sister Zora, second from right, run a “Doctor Who”-themed lemonade stand, in background, and yard sale Friday at their home in East Lawrence. Finn and Zora built the sci-fi set with the help of their father. RIGHT: Finn shows Perrin Goulter, 9, a homemade TARDIS console at the stand.

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Stanley Lombardo’s going to hell. Care to join him? By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

Kansas University classics professor emeritus Stanley Lombardo’s dramatic

reading of his translation of “Inferno” at this weekend’s Fringe Festival KC may be abridged, but he doesn’t leave out author Dante Alighieri’s famously

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walking stick will transport the audience through the 14th-century poem’s circles of hell, complete with Please see STANLEY, page 2A

Rising unemployment

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Kansas’ jobless rate rose to 4.5 percent in June, the third straight month it’s climbed while national numbers improved. Page 3A

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